About 100 bridges and 60 highways were destroyed in the fighting, which claimed some 1,000 Lebanese and 160 Israeli lives.
Battalion commander Col. Yevgeny Zhukov said there will be 15 tents in the camp, deployed 15 meters from the Mediterranean Sea shore, and it will be divided into four zones - residential, recreational, logistical, and technical.
He said Lebanese military servicemen from an adjacent military unit gave a very friendly reception to the Russians.
"Lebanese servicemen have undertaken to provide waste disposal services and to supply water," he said.
The commander said the servicemen will start the reconstruction effort October 9.
Russian engineers, who are planning to work 10 hours a day, are to rebuild six bridges.
A third cargo plane with equipment for Russian combat engineers in Lebanon took off earlier Wednesday from an air base outside Moscow.
The Russian air force will deliver a total of 130 tons of equipment and 300 servicemen to the Middle East country by October 6, while a Russian ship, the Yury Arshenevsky, which left the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk October 1 with combat engineers and equipment to erect six bridges, is scheduled to arrive at the southern Lebanese port of El-Jiya on October 4 or 5.
The upper house of the Russian parliament approved sending a battalion of combat engineers to Lebanon September 26. Sergei Ivanov, Russia's defense minister and a deputy prime minister, said that Russia's 400-man contingent in Lebanon will not participate in the UN peacekeeping group, but will operate on the basis of bilateral agreements between the Russian and Lebanese governments.
The contingent will operate near the city of Sayda, 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of Beirut, restoring bridges and roads, as well as clearing mines during their three months in Lebanon.
